The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War - Hardcover

Hynes, Samuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670031933 ISBN 13: 9780670031931

Verlag: Viking Pr, 2003

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Book by Hynes Samuel

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Reseña del editor:

A Princeton University professor and marine corps veteran recounts his Great Depression-era boyhood, during which he accompanied his father to numerous cities and farms in search of work, lost his mother and gained a stepmother, and experienced the temptations of pre-war adolescence. 25,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

Samuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of several major works of literary criticism, including The Auden Generation, Edwardian Occasions, and The Edwardian Turn of Mind. Hynes's wartime experiences as a Marine Corps pilot were the basis for his highly praised memoir, Flights of Passage. The Soldiers' Tale, his book about soldiers' narratives of the two world wars and Vietnam, won a Robert F. Kennedy Award. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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• Verlag: Viking Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0670031933
• ISBN 13: 9780670031931
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320